HAPPY NEW WEEK!
Everyone have a good week. Enjoy the last vestiges of summer! (Winter for AQ.)
Happy Labor Day to Annette and bjane.
Evening all: Cleaned the house this morning; wasn't planning to, but one thing led to another. Did manage 3 hours in the garden chair this afternoon. Our massive Chinese Elm has started dropping its (millions?) of seeds, a three-month long annual event. They are very light and the slightest breeze sends them wafting down onto the patio, hour after hour, like snow, and when you try to sweep them up, they waft off somewhere else. Thank heaven the tree people are coming in a few weeks. Heather: Oh my gosh - Amy is all grown up and headed out into the world. How wonderful.
Cirrus: Nice to see you!
Rusty: Maybe your friend's activities haven't included mowing lawns, etc. That fatigue is a real pain in the derriere when you're used to going nonstop. Clare: Tell me those 1,700 photos weren't from Sunday's outing! I had to Google HAARP. Enjoy your summer days. dibnlib: Well from what we've heard about Erica, I doubt bad weather will deter her from her skydiving ambitions. Hope she can arrange another date soon. Lindybird: Two lawnmowers? That's ambitious. Is he planning on driving them both at the same time? :-) Have a good Monday everyone.
Unknown said:I had to Google HAARP.
So did I! It's the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program. Phew, what a mouthful.
Unknown said:Tell me those 1,700 photos weren't from Sunday's outing!
They were indeed. I took 749 photos ...... Limpy took nearly a thousand. It's been a while since I got that carried away. My finest moment came on our first day at Bempton Cliffs last year - I took more than 1,460 photos in one afternoon! The wind direction meant that the gannets were flying straight towards me as they came in to land - they are my favourite seabird and I just kept snapping. Just awesome.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Goodness, everyone sounds so busy! Annette, you get a slap on the wrist for doing so much cleaning in one day! Look after that sciatica. My OH now has THREE lawnmowers, and we only have one quite small lawn !! The petrol driven mower is at the menders as it gave up the ghost. My OH then dug out an old electric mower from the shed which I didn't even know we still had. Then he bought a cheap one yesterday. Now, he's tested that one and it worked although not as efficiently as the petrol driven one. He says he will now take the old electric one to the tip. Rusty, well done on all that French homework, and what's to come, too!
Clare & Limpy -- so pleased to hear that you had a cracking day out!
It's really sunny and warm here - when I saw the forecast I must admit that I didn't quite believe it. But it should last the week. My OH has now mown the lawn, after first going to the allotment and picking beans, then picking up a machine and spending an hour cleaning our dining room carpet. He hired the machine and it soon made light work of it- the worst bit is emptying the room first (Except for the two heavy dresser units) and then avoiding walking on the carpet afterwards, while it dries. As this means going out of the front floor, into the house again through the garage, and ending up in the kitchen .... .... .... Now we've had lunch in the conservatory, and he's finally sitting down in the garden. Phew!!
Morning all Clare: I'm all agog at the number of photos you guys took. I may have taken that many in my whole life. :-) Rusty: I love the sound of your French class assignments. I bought a T-shirt in M&S outlet store when I was in the UK last year (actually I bought 2 they were so cheap): White with 'impression-style' flowers on the front under the words Jardin d'Ete. Seems like you ought to be planning a trip across the Channel at some point.. OG: All agog (again) at the thought that there are robotic lawnmowers and that anyone can operate two at a time! Good Lord! I had a postage-stamp sized lawn in my Long Beach house and had an old-fashioned push/pull mower. I love the sound of those , the gentle clack-clack-clack always said "summer" to me. I'm going to schedule gutter cleaners for the first time this year (I usually do it), probably when the Elm is done shedding. Sounds like a nice easy sort of weekend. Lindybird: What is it with men and machinery? My OH has more screwdrivers, wrenches, and other unidentifiable tools, not to mention multiple discarded medication bottles filled with screw, nails, nuts and bolts (not that he ever uses any of them.. I find they come in handy though.) I think you need to rent out your OH - I was just looking at the carpets in the bedroom yesterday and thinking a machine could make quick work of the paths most traveled. I don't see complex carbohydrates or protein in those whiskey ingredients.....:-) Hope everyone in the UK continues to enjoy nice weather and that everyone elsewhere is doing okay too.